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evaluate the competition as well as cross-skill complementary effects of immigrants on wages. We also emphasize the importance … immigrants and workers with no degree. We then estimate the substitutability between natives and immigrants and we find a small … but significant degree of imperfect substitution which further decreases the competitive effect of immigrants. Finally, we …
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penalty of similar magnitude to the return on each year of schooling attained. Interestingly, when we split the sample by age …
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This paper examines the effects of skill advantages at age six on different types of parental investments, and long-run outcomes up to age 27. We exploit exogenous variation in skills due to school entry rules, combining 20 years of Chilean administrative records with a regression discontinuity...
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In this paper we study theoretically and empirically the role of the interaction between skilled migration and intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection in determining innovation in developing countries (South). We show that although emigration from the South may directly result in the...
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continuum of tasks in each sector and we augment it to include immigrants with heterogeneous productivity in tasks. We use this … pushed natives toward more communication-intensive tasks while it has pushed immigrants away from them. -- Employment … ; Production tasks ; Immigrants ; Offshoring …
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substantial progress in education. However, average workers¿ earnings have stagnated and earnings for workers with more schooling …, earnings differentials across schooling levels would increase, as would the returns to education. In parallel, earnings … have declined, compressing the earnings distribution and lowering the returns to education. This paper hypothesizes that …
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The paper investigates the determinants of ethnic heterogeneity of the Italian provinces. Among other factors, the paper tests empirically whether gradual improvements in distant communication boost the generation of ethnically heterogeneous provinces. Consequently to easier communication,...
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of tasks performed at work, as well as on occupations, returns to cognitive skills can vary between null and numbers much …
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-humanitarian migrants, European third country immigrants and natives. We draw on a register based panel dataset covering the complete labour …
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with few formal educational qualifications. We show that lower educated workers in occupations where social skills are more … important experience steeper wage growth with tenure, and also higher early exit rates, than equivalent workers in occupations … where social skills are less important. Moreover, the return to tenure in occupations where social skills are important is …
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